First fight. Then fiddle.
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.